i made that common mistake (learned from Star Trek) on/. about a year ago and some one pointed out the difference. It's not your fault, blame lazy Sci-Fi writers. But know you know, which is half the battle.
Be careful with dictionaries, esp. Websters. Most dictionaries are written by descriptivists. A class of moron who think words mean whatever anyone feels like them meaning. They list how words are (ab)used, not necessarily what they *mean*.
That would rock indeed. Even if the bots go stupid one third of the time, it'd still be fun to watch the coders and engineers try to get their system running before the kill-o-matic trashes them.
i'd have categories for weight class, terrain and whether the AI was onboard or remote. The latter option allows competitors to use a server farm as the brain of the system, rather than lugging it around. For terrain, i'd have indoor/urban, land, water and air, and mixed. Maybe categories for swarms.
One challenge could be to give each team a budget and a time limit. Or there are bins full of parts, ROM burners and a time limit. Build a bot, program it, send it to die!
While we're on the subject, let's talk about the difference between drones/UAVs and robots so we use the right words.
A drone/UAV is controlled remotely by a human. If a UAV is on autopilot flying to the target area, it is function as a robot. With the US military, there is a "man in the loop" for any attack using a UAV. The bomb disposal machines are not robots. They are remote controlled. A land mine would be closer to a robot.
A robot follows a program and is NOT controlled by a person. An air to air heat seeking missile is a robot. The software tells it what to do.
An android is a robot in the shape of a human, like the T800.
Mecha in Robotech and the like... are NOT robots. They are vehicles piloted by people. The transformers are robots that happen to be sapient. Big metal walking thing != robot. Absence of pilot inside != robot.
The machines in Battle Bots are remote controlled cars with armor and weapons. They are NOT robots. But it would be awesome if they were.
There's a big problem with Mars when it comes to terraforming. Mars lacks a spinning iron core so it has no protection from the sun blasting away its atmosphere. We'd want to invent some way of keeping the air in place, otherwise we'd be terraforming something that will eventually be a barren rock.
** Just did a search and learned that scientists no longer think this is the case **
My plan for terraforming Mars was to have giant tanks of algae. Pull in the CO2, bring it to a temp the algae can survive, kick out the O2. Could use some portion of the algae for food and fuel. We might be able to have automated systems do much of this work (decades from now).
First, stop using the misnomer "piracy". Copyright infringement is NOT armed robbery (or kidnapping) at sea. Tell the couple kidnapped from their yacht that downloading a song is the same as what is happening to them. Don't make light of what is happening off the coast of Somalia. Don't make sharing a song sound like something grave. Don't buy into the RIAA's attempt to make something seem worse than it is.
"Making music--good music--takes time and resources."
It's egocentric of you to assert there is such a thing as objectively good music. There's music you like, and music you don't. Those words you hear in your head aren't always facts. Sometimes they're just your own feelings and thoughts.
As for taking resources... no one asked them to do that. If someone quits their day job to record an album, i don't owe them a penny. If someone offers you a cash advance to produce an album, great, then THEY own you money. Not me. i haven't commissioned a recording or performance of it. No one is paying me for my time on slashdot, fark or playing PlanetSide. i invested a great deal of time and money into PlanetSide, and yet... not a dime! No one is paying for recordings of me singing in the shower. Where's my royalty? Oh right... no one asked me to do any of those things. Maybe the problem isn't the filesharing, but the way the industry works....
The Nerd Core Hip Hop scene is thriving without charging for music. i have hours and hours of legally free jams. The lack of payment doesn't seem to be stopping them. Jonathan Coulton makes a living selling tickets, merch and voluntary purchases of CDs. One site allows purchase of tracks and albums where the buyer sets the price. The site tells you how much goes to the artist, and what their slice is.
Major label artists earn very little from the sale of CDs, so not buying them causes little harm to artists. The claim that Kid Rock is starving because we pull his stuff from BT is crap. It's "hurting" the stock holders and the executives a little. By harm i mean they could buy their daughter a only Lexus instead of a Mercedes for her birthday. i don't care about these execs or the stock holders at all. Maybe the problem isn't the filesharing, but how people think they should all get rich from it.
The problem isn't filesharing, the problem is an archaic industry that still has enough money to buy off politicians to make laws in their favor. Artists that have adapted are doing fine.
"Most stuff is crap."
Arrogant much?
"But those that have proved themselves... "hey, I know I like this guy's music but I'm a cheapskate so I'm going to download that anyway.""
Econ 101, Day 1 - Supply and Demand
1) The value/price of something is a function of the supply of it, and the demand for it. Value = Demand/Supply 2) If it can be digitized, it can be duplicated with perfect fidelity infinitely 3) Any finite demand divided by a virtually infinite supply creates a value of as close to zero as makes no odds
Music... the data that is the music... it WORTHLESS. It does not matter one bit how much it cost to record the song, how much the artists loves themselves, how much time they spent on it... the market has spoken. It's worthless. The cost is some minuscule portion of my hard drive space, electricity bill and FiOS subscription. This battle was done and over when the MP3 format was invented. The corpse just is just too stubborn to admit that it's dead. People don't want the gravy train to stop. It has nothing to do with art or ethics, it's about greed and fear.
"Now, I have bought CD albums I'd downloaded that I wouldn't have if I'd not. Yes, that happens. But most people just want free mp3s on their portable music player, they aren't concerned about supporting the artist or even having a pressed CD as a collector's item or for preservation."
Sell me something that has VALUE, and i'll buy it. Data has no value. Sell me a t-shirt, a performance, a limited edition dealiebob. Somethi
i recently had a bit of panic on this subject. i changed my password to something i couldn't quite remember. For about a day i was thinking about who FUXXORED i would be if i couldn't get in. i managed to reset my password the next day. This made me think about what i can do with my GMail accounts to reduce my fuckedness should something like that happen again.
i'm going to shift from GMail to GMail via Apps for Your Domain. i'll use nicknames and UserName+Website@MyDomain.tld to separate who is sharing my address and for spam filtering. i'll forward all/most mail to another account, maybe another GMail account or another webmail entirely. i suppose offline GMail on my computer might be another way to back up. If i'm locked out of my primary, i can log into the alternate and everything would be there.
As for files and all that other stuff, which i think is your main concern, that would be more complex. i try to think of my online storage as a place to share, rather than store.
Did you know that asking critical, honest questions isn't trolling? Yeah, and the mod for troll does NOT mean "I Disagree/Uncomfortable Truth". If you want to bury comments that disagree with your religious OS affiliation, go to Digg.
i wasn't trolling. i was pointing out that *nix hasn't caught up to Windows on some fields. Even WINE can't run everything. The driver support for *nix hasn't caught up. It's still a tiny market share, so switching to it exclusively would seriously cut my options in hardware, software and interacting with other users.
Nothing i said was even insulting to *nix or it users. So it wasn't even flamebait.
Mod points aren't meant to be used for censorship or retaliation against someone who disagrees with you.
Nope. The least crapwared computer would be a system you built yourself. With a clean install of just the OS. One can do this quite easily in the Windows or *nix world. It's *possible* in OSX, but it violates the EULA or something and requires extra work.
Apples come with plenty of crapware, but no one who bought one would admit that.
Mods: That post wasn't informative (no information provided). It's either Apple fellation or trolling, depending on the poster's actual beliefs.
Run MSO, PlanetSide, WoW, Crysis, GTA X, Global Agenda, Steam and the games i download for it? Will it use the peripherals available at Best Buy, or that the people around me have? Will it work with contemporary video and sound cards? Will i be able to share files/programs with more people or fewer people?
When i was an intel analyst with an above Top Secret clearance, one of my jobs was talking to aircrew about Law of Armed Conflict. Here's a sort of LoAC truth table:
Terrorist/lawful combatant + open field = fair game Religious site = off limits Religious site + Terrorist or other combatant = fair game Orphanage + Dewey Eyed Puppy Farm + Terrorist Cell meeting site = fair game Civilian minding his own business = off limits Civilian throwing rocks = respond with tear gas, rifle butts (proportionate response) Civilian with firearm or other deadly weapon = unlawful combatant = fair game
Despite fashionable cynicism, our soldiers and their commanders go to great lengths to minimize harm to civilians. Because "if it bleeds it leads" we hear almost only bad news. We don't hear much about our efforts to protect property, infrastructure and places of cultural and religious significance. We don't hear about all the targets we didn't attack because we were trying minimize loss of civilian life or property. Sometimes we do so at great risk to our military.
People make mistakes and sometimes with terrible consequences. Sometimes people lose their shit and do terrible things. But such cases are the highly publicized minority. Such cases should be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law as they cause great harm to morale and our standing in the world. But it would be nice if people could see the big picture, or know that for every Lynndie England, there are dozens of soldiers, airmen and marines conducting themselves honorably.
"Yes, there are zero emissions from the tailpipe, but the electricity has to come from somewhere."
True.
But even if the volts are coming from coal, it's coal burning happening in one place where it would/should be easier to capture. Instead of burning gas all over the place where it might be hard to capture.
i wish we weren't so afraid of the n word. Not *that* n word, the other.
i've been saying for a long time that there won't be a silver bullet for energy. i'd like to see more efficient cars, more hybrids, some fuel cell cars, some pneumatic, more nuclear power, more geo, more this more that. Use as many sources as possible as efficiently as possible. And build worthwhile public transport.
i've found GDocs useful for sharing, but not a viable competitor to MSO or ever OO.o (in terms of features). Based on your post, i've created a Zoho account and will give it a try. i use GDocs mostly for its integration into all my other Google stuff. It's convenient to be in my GMail account and then hit Documents, and there i am. Getting my friends to go to yet another site to share stuff might annoy me and my friends, as made up as they are.
What i'd really love is for docs and email to be seamless *cough* GWave *cough*. But i don't have an invite yet.
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i bow to your geek superiority. Well done! :)
What the other guy said.
i made that common mistake (learned from Star Trek) on /. about a year ago and some one pointed out the difference. It's not your fault, blame lazy Sci-Fi writers. But know you know, which is half the battle.
Be careful with dictionaries, esp. Websters. Most dictionaries are written by descriptivists. A class of moron who think words mean whatever anyone feels like them meaning. They list how words are (ab)used, not necessarily what they *mean*.
That would rock indeed. Even if the bots go stupid one third of the time, it'd still be fun to watch the coders and engineers try to get their system running before the kill-o-matic trashes them.
i'd have categories for weight class, terrain and whether the AI was onboard or remote. The latter option allows competitors to use a server farm as the brain of the system, rather than lugging it around. For terrain, i'd have indoor/urban, land, water and air, and mixed. Maybe categories for swarms.
One challenge could be to give each team a budget and a time limit. Or there are bins full of parts, ROM burners and a time limit. Build a bot, program it, send it to die!
While we're on the subject, let's talk about the difference between drones/UAVs and robots so we use the right words.
A drone/UAV is controlled remotely by a human. If a UAV is on autopilot flying to the target area, it is function as a robot. With the US military, there is a "man in the loop" for any attack using a UAV. The bomb disposal machines are not robots. They are remote controlled. A land mine would be closer to a robot.
A robot follows a program and is NOT controlled by a person. An air to air heat seeking missile is a robot. The software tells it what to do.
An android is a robot in the shape of a human, like the T800.
Mecha in Robotech and the like... are NOT robots. They are vehicles piloted by people. The transformers are robots that happen to be sapient. Big metal walking thing != robot. Absence of pilot inside != robot.
The machines in Battle Bots are remote controlled cars with armor and weapons. They are NOT robots. But it would be awesome if they were.
i'd love to see the **entire** Asmoverse as a series on Sci-Fi. Give it a BSG budget, be true to the 50's look (like Sky Captain).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8337887.stm
File-sharers are big spenders too
People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found.
Those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just £44.
Indeed, there are strains of kudzu and similar vines that could make a living on Mars, Venus or wafting on updrafts in Jupiter.
There's a big problem with Mars when it comes to terraforming. Mars lacks a spinning iron core so it has no protection from the sun blasting away its atmosphere. We'd want to invent some way of keeping the air in place, otherwise we'd be terraforming something that will eventually be a barren rock.
** Just did a search and learned that scientists no longer think this is the case **
My plan for terraforming Mars was to have giant tanks of algae. Pull in the CO2, bring it to a temp the algae can survive, kick out the O2. Could use some portion of the algae for food and fuel. We might be able to have automated systems do much of this work (decades from now).
First, stop using the misnomer "piracy". Copyright infringement is NOT armed robbery (or kidnapping) at sea. Tell the couple kidnapped from their yacht that downloading a song is the same as what is happening to them. Don't make light of what is happening off the coast of Somalia. Don't make sharing a song sound like something grave. Don't buy into the RIAA's attempt to make something seem worse than it is.
"Making music--good music--takes time and resources."
It's egocentric of you to assert there is such a thing as objectively good music. There's music you like, and music you don't. Those words you hear in your head aren't always facts. Sometimes they're just your own feelings and thoughts.
As for taking resources... no one asked them to do that. If someone quits their day job to record an album, i don't owe them a penny. If someone offers you a cash advance to produce an album, great, then THEY own you money. Not me. i haven't commissioned a recording or performance of it. No one is paying me for my time on slashdot, fark or playing PlanetSide. i invested a great deal of time and money into PlanetSide, and yet... not a dime! No one is paying for recordings of me singing in the shower. Where's my royalty? Oh right... no one asked me to do any of those things. Maybe the problem isn't the filesharing, but the way the industry works....
The Nerd Core Hip Hop scene is thriving without charging for music. i have hours and hours of legally free jams. The lack of payment doesn't seem to be stopping them. Jonathan Coulton makes a living selling tickets, merch and voluntary purchases of CDs. One site allows purchase of tracks and albums where the buyer sets the price. The site tells you how much goes to the artist, and what their slice is.
Major label artists earn very little from the sale of CDs, so not buying them causes little harm to artists. The claim that Kid Rock is starving because we pull his stuff from BT is crap. It's "hurting" the stock holders and the executives a little. By harm i mean they could buy their daughter a only Lexus instead of a Mercedes for her birthday. i don't care about these execs or the stock holders at all. Maybe the problem isn't the filesharing, but how people think they should all get rich from it.
The problem isn't filesharing, the problem is an archaic industry that still has enough money to buy off politicians to make laws in their favor. Artists that have adapted are doing fine.
"Most stuff is crap."
Arrogant much?
"But those that have proved themselves... "hey, I know I like this guy's music but I'm a cheapskate so I'm going to download that anyway.""
Econ 101, Day 1 - Supply and Demand
1) The value/price of something is a function of the supply of it, and the demand for it. Value = Demand/Supply
2) If it can be digitized, it can be duplicated with perfect fidelity infinitely
3) Any finite demand divided by a virtually infinite supply creates a value of as close to zero as makes no odds
Music... the data that is the music... it WORTHLESS. It does not matter one bit how much it cost to record the song, how much the artists loves themselves, how much time they spent on it... the market has spoken. It's worthless. The cost is some minuscule portion of my hard drive space, electricity bill and FiOS subscription. This battle was done and over when the MP3 format was invented. The corpse just is just too stubborn to admit that it's dead. People don't want the gravy train to stop. It has nothing to do with art or ethics, it's about greed and fear.
"Now, I have bought CD albums I'd downloaded that I wouldn't have if I'd not. Yes, that happens. But most people just want free mp3s on their portable music player, they aren't concerned about supporting the artist or even having a pressed CD as a collector's item or for preservation."
Sell me something that has VALUE, and i'll buy it. Data has no value. Sell me a t-shirt, a performance, a limited edition dealiebob. Somethi
i recently had a bit of panic on this subject. i changed my password to something i couldn't quite remember. For about a day i was thinking about who FUXXORED i would be if i couldn't get in. i managed to reset my password the next day. This made me think about what i can do with my GMail accounts to reduce my fuckedness should something like that happen again.
i'm going to shift from GMail to GMail via Apps for Your Domain. i'll use nicknames and UserName+Website@MyDomain.tld to separate who is sharing my address and for spam filtering. i'll forward all/most mail to another account, maybe another GMail account or another webmail entirely. i suppose offline GMail on my computer might be another way to back up. If i'm locked out of my primary, i can log into the alternate and everything would be there.
As for files and all that other stuff, which i think is your main concern, that would be more complex. i try to think of my online storage as a place to share, rather than store.
Thanks!
+1 Informative!
i thought all DNA was double stranded. Is there single or triple stranded DNA? If all DNA is double stranded, why mention strandedness at all?
i'm not trolling, i'm asking a question. Yesterday some jerks with more mod points than sense labeled me as a troll for asking questions.
Hi moderators!
Did you know that asking critical, honest questions isn't trolling? Yeah, and the mod for troll does NOT mean "I Disagree/Uncomfortable Truth". If you want to bury comments that disagree with your religious OS affiliation, go to Digg.
i wasn't trolling. i was pointing out that *nix hasn't caught up to Windows on some fields. Even WINE can't run everything. The driver support for *nix hasn't caught up. It's still a tiny market share, so switching to it exclusively would seriously cut my options in hardware, software and interacting with other users.
Nothing i said was even insulting to *nix or it users. So it wasn't even flamebait.
Mod points aren't meant to be used for censorship or retaliation against someone who disagrees with you.
Remember kids: Asking critical, honest questions is trolling!
Way to ignore the points i was making with butthurt hyperbole. Stay classy.
Nope. The least crapwared computer would be a system you built yourself. With a clean install of just the OS. One can do this quite easily in the Windows or *nix world. It's *possible* in OSX, but it violates the EULA or something and requires extra work.
Apples come with plenty of crapware, but no one who bought one would admit that.
Mods: That post wasn't informative (no information provided). It's either Apple fellation or trolling, depending on the poster's actual beliefs.
Awesome.
Does that include sound/video cards?
Worse yet, they changed the outcome of the race by measuring it.
i lost 300 big boys on that!
Way to miss the concept of stereotypes.
Run MSO, PlanetSide, WoW, Crysis, GTA X, Global Agenda, Steam and the games i download for it? Will it use the peripherals available at Best Buy, or that the people around me have? Will it work with contemporary video and sound cards? Will i be able to share files/programs with more people or fewer people?
Has someone posted that paying $0.01 is "legally stealing" the game? Someone made that claim in the last thread about this.
i wish i had bought it during the promotion. Now i won't get it at all. i enjoyed the demo.
i'd like to see a sort of ransom model for stuff like this. Once the game hits sales of X, the game is free or the price is cut.
Or do the opposite! What you'd have to pay for is your order number in pennies. Buy it now or pay more!
Maybe have a donation leaderboard. Geeks love that epeener crap. "OMG, Trollhattan146 out donated me! Take this $10 donation, n00b!"
If you've made the game as an ad for your company you can sell the game with an eye to break even, then make the game free.
Hi,
When i was an intel analyst with an above Top Secret clearance, one of my jobs was talking to aircrew about Law of Armed Conflict. Here's a sort of LoAC truth table:
Terrorist/lawful combatant + open field = fair game
Religious site = off limits
Religious site + Terrorist or other combatant = fair game
Orphanage + Dewey Eyed Puppy Farm + Terrorist Cell meeting site = fair game
Civilian minding his own business = off limits
Civilian throwing rocks = respond with tear gas, rifle butts (proportionate response)
Civilian with firearm or other deadly weapon = unlawful combatant = fair game
Despite fashionable cynicism, our soldiers and their commanders go to great lengths to minimize harm to civilians. Because "if it bleeds it leads" we hear almost only bad news. We don't hear much about our efforts to protect property, infrastructure and places of cultural and religious significance. We don't hear about all the targets we didn't attack because we were trying minimize loss of civilian life or property. Sometimes we do so at great risk to our military.
People make mistakes and sometimes with terrible consequences. Sometimes people lose their shit and do terrible things. But such cases are the highly publicized minority. Such cases should be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law as they cause great harm to morale and our standing in the world. But it would be nice if people could see the big picture, or know that for every Lynndie England, there are dozens of soldiers, airmen and marines conducting themselves honorably.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9-esIM2CY
"Yes, there are zero emissions from the tailpipe, but the electricity has to come from somewhere."
True.
But even if the volts are coming from coal, it's coal burning happening in one place where it would/should be easier to capture. Instead of burning gas all over the place where it might be hard to capture.
i wish we weren't so afraid of the n word. Not *that* n word, the other.
i've been saying for a long time that there won't be a silver bullet for energy. i'd like to see more efficient cars, more hybrids, some fuel cell cars, some pneumatic, more nuclear power, more geo, more this more that. Use as many sources as possible as efficiently as possible. And build worthwhile public transport.
i've found GDocs useful for sharing, but not a viable competitor to MSO or ever OO.o (in terms of features). Based on your post, i've created a Zoho account and will give it a try. i use GDocs mostly for its integration into all my other Google stuff. It's convenient to be in my GMail account and then hit Documents, and there i am. Getting my friends to go to yet another site to share stuff might annoy me and my friends, as made up as they are.
What i'd really love is for docs and email to be seamless *cough* GWave *cough*. But i don't have an invite yet.
Good use of the [HERO] tag subby!
Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise Crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6moDLjGnYro